Can artificial intelligence create the next wonder material?
Artificial intelligence has already gotten to the point where machines are as good as humans at many tasks, and even outperform humans at several more. The general goal of AI is to improve machines to be as good or better than humans at a wide variety of tasks. There's no theoretical reason why materials science is any different; we may well someday have a machine that can out-think all human materials scientists. There's not much reason to suppose that humans will always reign supreme at any particular task (especially objective ones like science), so yes, it's entirely possible that the next "wonder material" will be invented by a machine.